By Jonathon Van Maren Earlier this year, Pew Research Center released their statistics on the state of reading in America, and it doesn’t look great: Nearly one in four Americans had not read a book in the past year. Late night host Jimmy Kimmel decided that those numbers seemed pretty high, and hit the streets…
Acclaimed author Kit Pearson joins Jonathon Van Maren on The Bridgehead for the second installment in our Children’s Literature series. Author of novels like A Handful of Time, Awake and Dreaming, and The Sky is Falling, Pearson produces literature of a rare quality. In this interview, she explains how.
By Jonathon Van Maren As far back as I can remember, I wanted my own library. Not just a little bookshelf in the corner with my own small collection of volumes, but a big library, a grand library, a place where books and ideas and people and artifacts of all types cluttered about while I…